When to stop sterilising bottles?

[Lizzie93]

Was just curious to see when people stopped sterilising there baby's bottles?
Thanks

[sherbetpips]

The standard time is 12 months

[HappyAsASandboy]

You need to steralise the bottles as long as you are giving formula in them.

Although you'll see your baby chewing on the buggy wheels and think 'why am I bothering', you really must. The germs on a buggy wheel are fairly benign compared to the bugs that grow in formula. Formula is the perfect medium for growing bacteria (unlike a buggy wheel), and so bugs will flourish in the books and crannies round the lid/at the bottom/in the teat etc.

Please keep sterilising as long as you're using formula. If you switch to just water from a bottle then it becomes less important, but while it's formula you really should keep sterilising.

[bonzo77]

Until I stopped formula, ie when I used up the last box, about 13 months with both of mine.

[stargirl1701]

When you stop using powdered formula.

[somersethouse]

I think at 6 months I started just washing them in the dishwasher and letting them dry. I was told that was fine, that they were sterilised.

My DD was never once sick.

[Lizzie93]

Okay thank you for all your comments this has helped me a lot

[HappyAsASandboy]

As somersethouse said, the dishwasher reaches a high enough temperature to sterilise. But if you wash up by hand, ten you need to sterilise seperately.